Rosanne Cash says she’s ‘terrified’ about US election: ‘My country doesn’t make any sense to me right now’

Rosanne Cash says the thought ofDonald Trump becoming president for a second time “terrifies” her, ahead of thepresidential election in November.

The revered musician, who is the eldest daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, spoke about the political climate in the US while appearing at the Black Deer festival of country and Americana in Eridge Park, Sussex over the weekend.

Cash, 69, told The Independent that she was “really angry” after Trump’s win at the 2016 election, recalling how her daughter, Carrie Cowell, called her crying and said she felt as though she “didn’t matter”.

It was a phone call that helped to inspire Cash’s 2018 album,She Remembers Everything, the Grammy-nominated record that saw her hailed as “one of the most ambitious and literary songwriters of her generation” byRolling Stone magazine.

“It’s just gotten worse and worse,” Cash said of the time since Trump was president. “It frightens me – I have little granddaughters. I’m terrified. My country doesn’t make any sense to me right now, I’m only hoping we can pull ourselves out.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, Cash revealed that she is working with her husband and longtime collaborator, John Leventhal, on what will be her 15th album.

“I’m not young anymore, and time is really precious, and I just think about everything I was inspired by, and who’s still around, and just how precious that is,” she said.

“The flip side is I’m really excited to do what I have left to do.”

“My last [album] was complicated,” she continued. “I felt a real need to do it like that, whether it sold or not, and now I want to do something that’s really stripped down and simple. John and I have had a lot of conversations about that.”

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